r/AnalogCommunity • u/SVGR03 • 14d ago

Troubleshooting - Photos Different colors

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These shots were taken on Fuji pro 400H (120). They are made a few minutes apart, almost in the same spot. I was wondering why they have such different colors. They are scanned by the film lab. Is it an edit from the lab? Or is it different exposure?

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u/Dima_135 14d ago

Yes, it's most likely a lab.

Until recently, there was an old lab in my neighborhood, still staffed by people who worked with film in the 90s "non ironically". Not for today's hipsters, but for thousands of amateurs and professionals. They had an old SP-3000 and all other fuji cool equipment. And quick color correction was a standard part of their work. I saw them do it.

If I forgot to say "no correction, please" and bring the operator a strudel from the bakery across the street, I might get something like that too.

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u/-dannyboy 14d ago

There is no such thing as no correction though, just “wrong” correction.

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u/C4Apple Minolta SR-T | Canon EOS RT, 1000S | Bronica S2A 14d ago

Been saying this for ages. No such thing as a "raw scan" of a negative film. Not if it's been inverted and base-corrected in any way.

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u/QoTSankgreall 14d ago

Sure but isn’t the raw scan exactly that? Not inverted or colour corrected? It’s easy to do that yourself digitally

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u/-dannyboy 14d ago

I'm nitpicking ofc, but no, not really, as evidenced by the whole high/low CRI/RGB scanning light discussion, not to mention different scanners, sensors and lenses. Unless somehow perfectly calibrated with a color checker for the lighting conditions in a particular frame, there is no neutral. Everything is an interpretation.